unknown characters %252B in url

Question

i have a page with links gotten from rss. they are: broken link

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%252BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20121220-390687.html

working link

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20121220-390687.html

i realise it works by changing %252B to %2B. im using php. is there a way to detect and correct it on the run?

Just use `str_replace('%252B', '%25%2B', 'URLHERE')` – PhearOfRayne Dec 20 '12 at 08:54 — PhearOfRayne, Dec 20 '12 at 08:54

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '12 at 08:56

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The URL has been double encoded. %25 is the escape sequence for "%", so a regular %2B got escaped again to %252B.

urldecode the value, but better avoid double-encoding it to begin with if possible.

answered Dec 20 '12 at 08:56

deceze

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '12 at 08:53

0

Use "urldecode"

echo urldecode("http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%252BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20121220-390687.html");

answered Dec 20 '12 at 08:53

sk8terboi87 ツ

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